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The film is based on Michael London's article, "The Death of Colleen", which detailed the short life and death of adult film actress Colleen Applegate (known professionally as Shauna Grant). London's article was featured in the Los Angeles Times six weeks after Applegate's suicide in March 1984. While London acted as a consultant on the film, producers changed Applegate's name to "Pauline Anderson" and fictionalized other aspects of her life at her parents' request.
The real "Pauline" (a.k.a. Shauna Grant) was born Colleen Marie Applegate on May 20, 1963. She was born in California but moved with her family to Minnesota in 1973. She moved back to California in 1982 and fell into the adult movie industry. She retired from adult films in 1983. Her parents offered to pay her tuition to college if she moved back home to Minnesota but she declined thinking she would no longer feel comfortable there. Sadly, she took her life on March 23, 1984. She was 20-years old.
Colleen Applegate's high school yearbook was one of a very few personal possessions she kept with her. Her personal possessions left behind could fit in a large envelope.
The high school photos on the yearbook that Pauleen shows Mel would later be shown in future movies, including Soapdish.
Melinda Dillion, who played Peter Billingsley's mother in "A Christmas Story", plays the mother of his real life siblings (Melissa Michaelsen and Neil Billingsley) in this film.
"Mel Erman: You okay? Pauleen Anderson: [cover her nose] Oh, I fine. Just a nosebleed. Dr. Packett says there's allergies. The desert air dries up my membranes. Mel Erman: [nods disapprovingly] I'm closing the cupboard. [Pauleen looks at him in shock] Mel Erman: No more coke for you. Pauleen Anderson: It's the desert air! Mel Erman: You think you're talking to some farmer on the back forty? You burned a hole in your nose. Pauleen Anderson: I don't do that much! Mel Erman: I'm cutting you off. Pauleen Anderson: Mel, that is not fair! Mel Erman: It's the best I can do. Pauleen Anderson: [attempts to leave] Fine! I'll just move the hell out of here! Mel Erman: And do what, go back to pornos? That's what you wanna do with your life, go ahead. Do it."
"Pauleen Anderson: [writing a poem] She dreams of mountains majestic and high, but she wakens to flatness beneath the sky. She reaches for something she can't explain, but they make her come in when she stands in the rain. She has hopes and wishes, she asks, she tries. But when she's alone she cries, she cries. She dreams of mountains she does not know. She needs to see them, she has to go."
